Our Privacy Policy

OUR PRIVACY POLICY

PRIVACY OBLIGATIONSForsyth Dental Pty Ltd T/a Tassie Smiles Dental takes its privacy obligations very seriously and wishes to ensure that your personal information is dealt with in accordance with all relevant privacy laws and this privacy policy.This privacy policy describes the way that we collect, use and disclose personal information about individuals.“Personal information” is defined as information or an opinion (including information or an opinion forming part of a database), whether true or not, and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an individual whose identity is apparent, or can reasonably be ascertained, from the information or opinion. Personal information does not include de-identified data.We are subject to:

The Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) including the National Privacy Principles (NPPs);

Facilitating the conduct of business transactions and operations between the Forsyth Dental Pty Ltd T/a Tassie Smiles
Dental and you;

Internal accounting and administration;

Regulatory reporting and compliance;

Where required or authorised by law, to investigate and resolve complaints concerning the provision of services by the
Dental Practice or others associated with the Dental Practice;

Billing Medicare or your private health insurer;

The communication of personal information to service providers with which Forsyth Dental Pty Ltd T/a Tassie Smiles
Dental has co-operative arrangements;

Providing a news subscription service to you;

To provide you with updates and other information from time to time about the Forsyth Dental Pty Ltd T/a Tassie Smiles
Dental’s goods, services and activities. You may notify the surgery at any time if you do not wish to receive this information.

Partners: We may engage third party suppliers to perform functions for us from time to time, for example information technology
and telecommunications suppliers and dental prosthesis suppliers. Each of these suppliers has signed confidentiality arrangements
with us. Any access to your information will occur in the performance of their contractual obligations to us and not for other usage.

Personal information provided by you can be updated by you if the information provided is incorrect or out of date.

If you want to gain access to or correct any of the personal information held by Forsyth Dental Pty Ltd T/a Tassie Smiles Dental about you, or if further information on how the surgery handles personal information is required, please contact the privacy officer below.

IDENTIFIERS
Forsyth Dental Pty Ltd T/a Tassie Smiles Dental will not adopt, use or disclose an identifier that has been assigned by any government “agency”, except health care identifiers for purposes permitted under the Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010 (Commonwealth).

ANONYMITY
Forsyth Dental Pty Ltd T/a Tassie Smiles Dental will give you the option to interact anonymously with the surgery or under a pseudonym whenever it is lawful and practical to do so. However, if you choose to be so treated we may be unable to follow up treatment for you and you bear the risks to your health associated with this.

TRANS-BORDER DATA FLOWS
Forsyth Dental Pty Ltd T/a Tassie Smiles Dental will not transfer personal information to a recipient in a foreign country without your prior written consent or unless this information will have appropriate protection as required by the relevant privacy laws.

SENSITIVE INFORMATION
Your sensitive information, such as your health information, will be dealt with pursuant to this privacy policy and protected under privacy laws.

POLICY
All employees and contractors to the Forsyth Dental Pty Ltd T/a Tassie Smiles Dental, in the course of their employment
or contract with Forsyth Dental Pty Ltd T/a Tassie Smiles Dental must comply with this privacy policy.